In Gremlins Two, the loveable creatures are electrocuted into putrified jelly. The film bears no report that eleven survived.
The MP for Harborough this week took a step towards fame when The Times picked up his attack on the Prime Minister’s failure to stop record migration.
The few solutions that have been offered up have tended to be blunt instruments, more likely to inflame tensions than deliver results in such a hostile institutional environment.
My hunch is the next generation of aspiring leaders will have a firmer grip on the meaning of conservatism than the current crop. Or, at least, I hope so — otherwise there might not be a party to lead.
The Devizes MP on his new book Covenant: the new politics of Home, Neighbourhood and Nation.
Conscripting school-leavers to serve as corvée labour for councils crumbling under the burden of social care would be socially poisonous and morally absurd.
Anyone who wants to understand modern conservatism, and its debt to Christianity, should buy this book.
The two leaders preached to the converted by trading exaggerated insults.
How can a relative handful of active MPs have sparked so much concern amongst their long-dominant liberal colleagues?
What does conservatism look like in a future where rising burdens on the State make low-tax politics impossible to deliver?
Each side fears the other’s approach will give the courts too much scope to interfere with the operation of the new law.
The Prime Minister promised that we will ‘stop the boats’. We all want him to succeed in this endeavour. But good intentions will count for nothing if the legislation doesn’t achieve its aims.
Kruger had to courage to propose that Britain leave the ECHR and draft a new framework for refugees and human rights.
MPs like me spent too much of the pandemic period looking the other way, and getting out of the Government’s way. It’s time we stepped up to make that right.